Yurendell Decaster Awards and Honors

Yurendell Decaster
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Full Name: Yurendell Eithel Decaster

Born: September 26, 1979

Age: 39

Birthplace:

Bats: R

Throws: R

Height: 6' 0"

Weight: 215

School: Netherlands Antilles

MLB Debut: 05/21/2006

Signed by Tampa Bay as a 16-year-old nondrafted free agent on 8/2/96...signed by Devil Rays scout Rudy Santin...selected by Pittsburgh from Tampa Bay on 12/11/00 in the Minor League portion of the Rule 5 draft...played for the Dutch National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece...has made appearances at first base, second base, third base, shortstop, left field and right field during his professional career...native and resident of Curacao, which has a population of about 150,000 inhabitants, with 40 to 50 nationalities living on the 182 square mile island located in the southwestern Caribbean, north of Venezuela and just 12 degrees from the equator...Yurendell Eithel DeCaster (first name pronounced "SHER-ren-duhl").